[Clinical study on liver metastasis of AFP-producing gastric cancer--characteristic findings of angiography]

Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi. 1999 Aug;96(8):941-6.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

We studied 6 patients with liver metastasis of AFP-producing gastric cancer, especially about the angiography and treatment. The angiographic findings of liver metastasis are characteristic in 3 patients. Multiple rounded hypervascular tumor are seen in the arterial phase and its vessels are fine. In the venous phase, the tumor is homogeneous. We called the findings "Fireworks like stain". These patients were treated with TAE and responded it.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angiography
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology*
  • alpha-Fetoproteins / analysis*

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • alpha-Fetoproteins